What can be made from sweet cherries?

Depending on the climate of the region, the cherry season begins in May and ends in July.This berry can make the immune system more stable, stimulate the gastrointestinal tract, strengthen the blood vessels. Vitamins available in sweet cherry have a good effect on the formation of bones and teeth in children, and glucose - on the work of the brain. This summer berry has a distinctive sweet taste, juicy and pleasant unobtrusive aroma, which makes it a good ingredient for various dishes.

All the preparations that can be made from sweet cherries are ideal for autumn and winter. Any variety is suitable for this - from burgundy to light pink and yellow. The easiest way to stock up on cherries for the cold season is to freeze it. It is enough to select and wash the berries, separate the cuttings. After that, you need to decompose the fruits in one layer and freeze, and then store in a bag or container.

Preparations can be used for the preparation of any dishes or eat thawed. You can make everything from it - from baking to sauce.

Another way to save the berries for the cold season is to wither them. They retain their sweet taste, so they can be used in baking or cooking compotes. In the first case, you should advance the bones.

Dried sweet cherries are prepared in combination with lemon and orange juice, sugar and cinnamon in a fruit dryer or an electric oven. To begin with, the ingredients are boiled in the resulting syrup and filtered. After that, they are dried, which can take up to 12 hours in special devices designed for this purpose. Dried berries must be stored in the refrigerator to prevent mold.

Cherry in its own juice is suitable as a blank. To do this, it must be defended, covered with sugar, and then cooked for a long time at the lowest possible heat until thickening begins.

For the simplest compote you will need a sweet cherry, sugar and water. You can add other fruits, citric acid, vanilla, herbs. The process itself includes boiling the syrup to a boil, pouring the sweet cherries in the jars and sterilizing. Compote can stand for up to several years if the rolling technology is observed.

A drink that you plan to drink for a day or two can be stored in regular bottles in the fridge. It also does not require sterilization, berries and other ingredients enough to cook in water with added sugar.

Jam can be made from any sort of sweet cherries. It should be remembered that the light berries give amber and pinkish syrup, not burgundy. Its consistency is transparent. To add acid jam, you can use lemon juice. For mixing with cherry, walnuts or fruits are often taken.

Dense fruits are suitable for jam, overripe fruits cannot be taken. Brewing should be carried out in several stages so that the berries do not wrinkle and lose their attractive appearance. Actively appearing foam needs to be removed with a skimmer, then the finished product will not deteriorate.

The classic jam syrup is made from water and sugar, but other ingredients, such as apple juice, are allowed. Sweet cherry is added to the mixture and brought to a boil. The resulting product is allowed to settle for several hours. After that, the whole procedure is repeated 2-3 times. Jars of jam should be poured only after complete cooling.

Sweet cherry is a suitable ingredient for any baking. It is used as a filling or decoration on cakes and baskets. These berries are taken for classic sweet cakes - with chocolate or vanilla, as well as unusual ones, for example, if blue cheese is used in the filling. The dough can be any: with a puff strudel will turn out, with a crumbly - crumble, with a pancake - clafout.

These berries are suitable not only for ordinary pies, but also for other pastries - brownies, muffins, biscuit rolls, tartlets. Sweet cherry blends well with many ingredients: from fruit to nuts.Baking mainly requires eggs, flour, milk, butter, water, baking powder and other products: soda, vanilla sugar, cocoa, starch. Classic dishes are prepared for about forty minutes in the oven.

Candy can be made from sweet cherries, serving as an independent dessert. For this you need citric acid, powdered sugar, vanilla and ordinary sugar, water. The berries themselves must be dense, unripe.

The principle of making candied fruits at home is to stand on the cherries in the syrup until it cools, and then repeat the process 2 to 4 times. On average, it can last from days to a couple of days. After the final settling of the berries in the syrup, it is necessary to remove the skimmer and let them rest for several hours or overnight. Cherries need to be dried in the oven to the state when the juice does not flow out of it when pressed.

From sweet cherry without any dyes it turns out tasty and bright jelly. For its preparation will need gelatin, citric acid, sugar and water. The syrup, brought to a boil, is mixed with the prepared gelatin, allowed to cool to room temperature, and then settled in forms in a refrigerator.

Another interesting and delicate option is jam, which you can then eat with pancakes, pancakes, spread on bread. It needs some overripe berries. For dessert are suitable as whole cherries, and milled. Cook them together with sugar in a small amount of water, first slowly, then over high heat until thick.

With the help of gelatin you can make mousse. This will require cottage cheese, cream, powdered sugar and vanilla sugar. All ingredients are gradually mixed, and then poured into molds and cooled for about half an hour.

Homemade sweet cherry candy - an original and tasty dessert. The layers themselves are slightly sticky, but their taste is delicate and saturated. Pastila is prepared at low temperatures, so the berries retain all their beneficial properties. You can choose any variety of ripe sweet cherries, but it is best to use dark ones.

For marshmallow, honey or sugar, an oven or a special drying for fruit are needed. The berries are ground in a blender or meat grinder. The resulting puree is dried for a long time until the consistency gives up the juice and becomes more viscous.

Sweet cherry marmalade is as easy to make as possible. It requires only the berries themselves, sugar and water, if desired, you can add a lemon. Fruits are rubbed through a sieve, a grater or rolled through a meat grinder. Ingredients are cooked over low heat until thick.

There are several ways to store homemade marmalade:

• roll up in sterilized jars;
• allow to harden in open containers / forms, sprinkle with sugar on top, close with a lid or film and put in the refrigerator.

Fresh cherries are an original ingredient for salads.

• The most common option is a mix of various fresh berries and fruits, seasoned with yogurt or sour cream.
• Salad with arugula, soft cheese, orange, pine nuts. Use lemon and orange juice for dressing.
• Salad with bulgur. Cooked cereal is mixed with chopped cherries, and dressing is made from lemon juice, butter and onions. At the end, you can add walnuts and herbs.
• Salad with ham, fried in olive oil, asparagus, tomatoes, lettuce. Honey and vinegar or lemon juice are suitable for filling.

The classic version of the use of sweet cherries is a filling for dumplings. The dough is kneaded from milk, eggs and flour. In glued dumplings, except for berries, add a little sugar. Eat them correctly without puncturing with a fork. Dumplings take in hand and bite so that you can drink the juice.

Sweet cherry is an interesting ingredient for marinades and sauces for meat and poultry. From it you can also make salad dressing. To do this, the berries are boiled with water, spices, sugar, or chopped ingredients in a blender. Cherry juice is often mixed with lemon, orange or apple. Berries can be stuffed meat rolls, poultry.

With the help of sweet cherry you can make a special Indian seasoning - chutney. The peculiarity of this sauce is spicy, but sweet taste. Chutney prepares for a long time, but well shade any dish, especially fresh.

For this seasoning, fragrant spices are needed to taste - ginger, fennel seeds, cumin, Chernushka, star anise, allspice, cardamom. Fry them in olive oil before adding to sweet cherries. Mixed ingredients with palm sugar are cooked for about an hour and a half. To prevent them from burning, stir them every 20 minutes.

Sweet cherry sauce is the best final note for any desserts. They can pour casserole, pancakes, cheesecake, panacotu, cottage cheese and many other dishes or products. To make it you need only sugar, juice or lemon zest, balsamic vinegar. To give the sauce a spicy flavor, just add cinnamon sticks or clove buds.

Remove the bones from the cherry, and then boil the ingredients in water. The mixture will be ready when after boiling the berries are soft, which takes about 10 minutes. After that, you need to remove the cinnamon and cloves.

To add to the desserts or drinks suitable syrup. It will need sugar and citric acid. For preparation you need juice squeezed from berries and pressed through cheesecloth. All components are cooked until boiling and the appearance of foam, which should be removed at the end. Best of all hot syrup drain again and then pour into a bottle or jar.

For drinks in summer you can use fresh berries, in winter - blanks. Sweet cherry enough to mix with milk, yogurt or ice cream. Classic milkshake can be prepared in a blender, which takes only a few minutes. Syrup is also suitable for hot drinks, such as coffee.

In the summer, the original Cherry Soup will become relevant. For it you need to chop the fruit, lemon zest and sugar in a blender. Then, this puree must be added to the boiled broth - water mixed with lemon juice, starch, mint, cloves and juice from the berries, which is released when the seeds are removed. After the mixture has cooled, pour it into plates and place the ice cream.

Regardless of which dish is cooked, rinse the berries thoroughly under running water. Go through them, get rid of rotten and bowed, tear off the cuttings.

Not for all recipes suitable berries with pits. To remove them from the cherry, there are special machines and tools. For the manual method, you will need a clip, a hairpin, or a pointed sushi stick. The bottle with a narrowed neck, which will serve as a support for the fruit, will greatly facilitate the work.

Do not be afraid to combine sweet cherries with other products.

• To give the dishes or syrups an unusual taste and spicy oriental notes, use different spices and herbs.
• In desserts, this berry goes well with strawberries, bananas, raspberries. Fans of experiments can mix sweet cherries, pumpkins and zucchini.
• For fresh compote, use herbs such as basil or mint. This will give the drink new shades.To make it more sour, add citrus fruits or cherries, and other sweet berries - raspberry, strawberry - will help to soften the taste.

For information on how to make cherry jam, see the next video.